Sailing Through High School, a nauticaul alternative
“What do we want, a kid who is actively engaged in learning something new everyday or a bored, disaffected teenager, who is reluctantly putting in his time at school?”
Three Free Projects
Three Free Projects Here are three free projects from Woodshop for Kids. Nail Puzzle Camp Stool Wood...
Recycled Kitchen Cabinets.
We call it the “One Piece at a Time” remodel after the old Johnny Cash song. My wife wanted new kitchen cabinets, I don’t know why. Possibly because we had the same cabinets for 40 years and they had been used for years before we bought the house. Over the...
It’s not much, but it’s a NUF!
When my cousin Carl’s daughter was little he designed a 30 pound boat built from one sheet of 10 foot plywood and two 10 foot fir 1 X 4s. It was a clever design meant to get kids out on the water under their own power. I built two of these boats, one for each...
More Hand carved Skateboards
More skateboards carved by my brother. Here is a mockingbird. They are cruisers not boards for tricks. The wings fold in for riding. This is back side of a guitar skateboard. The Wheels in the center unclamp and the guitar plays. Doug says it’s...
Some Other Things I Built
I had never built a log building before, let alone with eighth graders, but my supervisor said, no problem. He had a design and we worked out details each morning before the kids got there. No one was more surprised than I it worked so well.
Delivering Food has become a series of Milagros Pequeños (Small Miracles)
On Wednesdays we do a run together for Miracle Food Network……Slowly we learned the children’s names, Mariela, Sofia, Flora, Gabbi, Iris, Alan, Karen, Carlos, Diego, Leslie, Juana, Rodrigo, Tristian, Reina. And they began to come to the door when we knocked.
Teachable Moments by Candy Meacham
“At night, in bed, sometimes I think about stealing money from rich people to give to poor people.” Our 6 year old grandson.
I later learned they were reading Robin Hood in kindergarten. Liam was pondering a local application.
Go Carts Verses the Science Olympiad or Third Grade Engineering
When I was in the third grade, my sister and I and a couple neighborhood kids designed “go carts”.
Juan and the Check Engine Light
I say, “so the check engine light on the last car I has was always on, and nothing was wrong. With this car the check engine light is off, and something is actually wrong.” Juan nods his head and says, “yup”.
Hand Carved Skateboards
My brother carves skateboards in the shape of birds or marine creatures.
Four Speeds in Reverse
To save money, and as an antidote to book work, my college buddy Joe and I used to work on our VW’s together. VW Repair for the Complete Idiot was our bible and if it failed us Joe, who didn’t like big business capitalists, would consult VW of America and do the opposite of what they recommended.
My Wife’s Toolbox
…..I’m not bad with a hammer and saw myself……It drove me crazy to go downstairs to his basement shop and look for the right tool…..